Teen ordered to pay nearly $1,000,000 to Wal-mart

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Dustin Walls pleaded guilty Monday to starting a fire in the 24-hour Walmart in September 2010. Surveillance cameras reportedly caught Walls setting shelving units on fire in the cosmetic's section around 2:50 a.m. Several bottles of shampoo ignited and cans of hairspray blew up. The store was closed for days as a crew worked to fix damage to the building.

The prosecutor said that the nearly $1 million fee shows that the state is "looking out for our merchants or crime victims of any kind."

Evidently, "of any kind" includes a corporation that reported $6 billion in profits in the quarter ending January 31. To put that into perspective, money Walls will have to repay Walmart represents less than .02 percent of what the company earned in just three months.

http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2011/04/dustin_walls_walmart_fire_fee.php

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The tone of the article irritates me. Just because a company makes a ton of profit does it mean that their property should be able to be destroyed?

Court made the right call. Hope this kid is paying for a long time...